Unit 1: Lifestyle Disease Unit (Mid Unit)

What is a controllable risk factor?

• age

• race

• exercise

• heredity

Which is not a lifestyle disease?

• type 2 diabetes

• cancer

• cardiovascular disease

• pneumonia

Which option(s) can help you reduce your risk of cancer

• increase salt in your diet

• get tested from a doctor regularly

• increase fiber in your diet

• not smoke cigarettes

Atherosclerosis

• interruption of blood flow to the heart

• a condition that describes the thickening of the arterial walls due to plague buildup

• abnormal growth of cells

• procedure to widen dangerously clogged blood vessels

Angioplasty

• interruption of blood flow to the heart

• a condition that describes the thickening of the arterial walls due to plague buildup

• abnormal growth of cells

• procedure to widen dangerously clogged blood vessels

Cardiovascular Disease

• disease of the heart and blood vessels

• body doesn't produce enough insulin

• infectious disease

• growth of abnormal cells

Swelling, extreme exhaustion, and headaches are symptoms of:

• stroke

• cancer

• heart attack

Which 2 options describe how cancer cells are different than normal cells?

• Cells grow and divide and continue until they form a tumor

• Cells grow and divide over a period of time until the cells eventually dies

• Sometimes cells can break away and travel to a different tissue or organ (metastasis)

Physically removing the cancer cells from the body?

• Chemotherapy

• Radiation

• Surgery

Oncologist

• a surgeon who removes type 2 diabetes from patients

• a doctor that specializes in treating people with cardiovascular disease

• a doctor that specializes in treating people with cancer

• a nurse who prepares the patient for radiation treatments